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While the pair have been spotted together many times since reportedly rekindling their 2000s-era romance in April, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have kept their coupling off Instagram — until now. 

Thanks to a snap from a slideshow on J. Lo’s bestie Leah Remini‘s Instagram page, the old-new couple have been captured together on the social media platform for the first time.

Remini shared a series of black and white pictures from a photo booth that had been set up for her 51st birthday party on Thursday.  Among them is a snap of the buzzed-about couple. Luckily, fans can pause the slideshow to get a good look.

It shows Lopez striking a pose under the crook of a smiling Ben’s right arm, her hand on his chest. For good measure, Remini’s under Ben’s left arm, with her hand on his chest as well. 

Remini commented to her 2.9 million followers, “Wanted to share a little video from my birthday with you all because I got so much love from you on my birthday but also everyday [sic]. I consider myself to have the best support system here on social media.”

She added, “Also, I can’t thank my family & friends enough for coming, for celebrating with me in a way that was very special to me. It’s been an interesting year, so this birthday meant a lot for many reasons.”

 

 

 

 

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Chrissy Teigen is feeling thankful for her fans. 

In videos shared to Instagram Stories on Wednesday, the 35-year-old Cravings author showed off the tons of mail she and husband John Legend received after she suffered a pregnancy loss last September. 

“This is just piles of letters that we just got because the place we usually get mail from, where you guys send mail, has been shut down and it opened back up. And now we got everything,” Teigen said between sniffles as she sorted through the items. “You guys sent the most amazing condolence letters and cards and books and I just want you to know that we got all of them. All of them. I’m gonna read them all, OK? I love you guys.”

Two months after announcing her pregnancy in August 2020, Chrissy shared the heartbreaking news that she suffered a miscarriage of a son, whom they planned to name Jack. 

“We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before,” she shared at the time. 

Chrissy and John are also parents to Luna, 5, and Miles, 3. 

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Amid growing concerns over the highly contagious Delta variant spreading across the U.S., Sean Penn challenged Hollywood leadership to impose stricter COVID-19 vaccination guidelines on TV and film sets, according to Deadline.

The 60-year-old actor vowed not to return to work on Gaslit — his Starz series co-starring Julia Roberts — until everyone on the production has been vaccinated for the virus.

Penn is insisting that vaccinating everyone on the set against COVID-19 must be mandatory and is offering to facilitate the vaccination effort, free of charge, through his organization, CORE.

Earlier this week, NBCUniversal, the studio behind Gaslit, mandated vaccinations in “Zone A,” which constitutes the cast and those who come in close proximity to the cast.  Production members must show proof of vaccination when they show up for their next shift.

Penn insists that unvaccinated individuals still put everyone else around them at risk on set, because crew that isn’t in “Zone A” still can come close enough to others to potentially spread a variant — for example, simply by being in the trailer of a cast member, for instance.

This is one of the first examples of a filmmaker or star directly challenging Hollywood leaders to go further than an agreement and impose strong rules on a production by requiring everyone to be vaccinated. If Penn follows through with his threat to stay out, it will delay the production.

Gaslit is a modern take on the Watergate scandal, which focuses on untold stories and forgotten characters of the time.  Penn will play former Attorney General John Mitchell.

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Mark Wahlberg stars as the title character in the new drama Joe Bell, a reality-based drama in which he plays a blue collar father who, in 2013, set off from Oregon to walk alone across country as a tribute to his gay son, who was bullied to the point of suicide.

Wahlberg, who also produced the film, said, “Just as a parent and father of four, felt, wow…This message needs to continue to get out there…”

He explained, “Jadin was such a brave and really tough young man. He was worried about what people thought, but he was devastated when his father told him not to be himself.” 

“And when Joe realized that he was as responsible as the kids were bullying him at school, I think that the only thing he could do was go out there and promote this message….”

He says of his character loved his two boys, “But emotionally, intellectually, being there for somebody who’s dealing with something that’s complicated, he just didn’t have the skills to do it, you know, and unfortunately, he had to learn and carry that burden with him. But he was willing to do that.”

Wahlberg said of his onscreen son, “Reid Miller reminds me so much of both of my sons, so there is the fact that, ‘Oh my God, if this were to happen to me and to my family, how would I be able to handle this and deal with it?'”

He added, “You know, when I’m away, even on location…you’re sacrificing a lot to do what I do. So I know what it’s like to be away from my family….I just I was just so connected to it emotionally and in depicting it in the most real way possible.” 

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13 Reasons Why star Tommy Dorfman is no longer hiding her truth and, in a new interview, reintroduced herself as a transgender woman.

Speaking with Time, Dorfman, who was born male, announced she has transitioned into a woman.

“For a year now, I have been privately identifying and living as a woman—a trans woman,” the 29-year-old announced. “I view today as a reintroduction to me as a woman, having made a transition medically.”

Dorfman continued, “Today is about clarity: I am a trans woman. My pronouns are she/her. My name is Tommy.”

Dorfman revealed that she would not be changing her birth name because “I’m named after my mom’s brother who passed a month after I was born, and I feel very connected to that name, to an uncle who held me as he was dying.”

“This is an evolution of Tommy. I’m becoming more Tommy,” she attested. 

The Insatiable star expressed that, while she never publicly addressed her transition, she subtly documented it through her Instagram, of which fans took notice of her slowly changing appearance and style.

“I’ve been living in this other version of coming out where I don’t feel safe enough to talk about it, so I just do it,” she continued. “So I kept, on Instagram, a diaristic time capsule instead—one that shows a body living in a more fluid space. However, I’ve learned as a public-facing person that my refusal to clarify can strip me of the freedom to control my own narrative.” 

Dorfman said she will now focus on how to “infuse my trans body into film and television,” going forward and revealed she is no longer interested in playing cisgender male characters “except for maybe in a ‘Cate Blanchett playing Bob Dylan‘ way.”

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(NOTE LANGUAGE) If you have Nick Cannon‘s number, you might need an update — because millions of people now do, too, thanks to Kevin Hart. 

Hart just posted to Instagram proof that he put the dad of seven’s digits on billboards in Los Angeles, New York, and Atlanta.

“For any advice on fatherhood, call my best friend Nick Cannon,” reads the post, which also shows a photo of a disappointed looking Hart with a llama.

“Since my brother @nickcannon decided to buy me a llama for my B Day I decided to do something nice for him as well,” Hart posted. “I’m sure his phone has been ringing nonstop,” he posted, with six “crying laughing” emoji.

Hart added, “GOTCHA BACK B**** #PRANKWARS.”

Long story short: don’t ever prank Kevin Hart. 

The Masked Singer host Cannon and model Alyssa Scott welcomed a baby boy named Zen earlier this month. The newborn marks the fourth child the 40-year-old has welcomed in under a year.

Besides baby Zen, Cannon also recently welcomed twin boys with Abby De La Rosa and also became the parent of a baby girl with Brittany Bell in December 2020. Cannon and Bell also share a three-year-old son.  Cannon shares 10-year-old twins, son Moroccan and daughter Monroe, with ex-wife Mariah Carey.

 

 

 

 

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Warner Bros. has unveiled a striking new trailer for its forthcoming adaptation of Frank Herbert‘s seminal science-fiction bestseller Dune.

In the film from Oscar-nominated Arrival director Denis Villeneuve, Timothee Chalamet stars as Paul Atreides, the son of an intergalactic ruler who is called to battle over the fate of a desert planet called Arrakis. The planet is home to spice — a coveted substance that can unlock human potential, making it sought after throughout the galaxy over.

In the trailer, as Paul grapples with his responsibilities, he confesses that he’s dreamed of a mysterious young woman, who he eventually sees in the flesh on Arrakis: Chani, one of the planet’s natives — portrayed by Zendaya — caught in the battle for Arrakis in a war launched by the evil Baron Harkonnen.

Amid the trailer’s stunning visuals are a constellation of stars, including Oscar Isaac as Paul’s father, Duke Atreides; Mission: Impossible series alumna Rebecca Ferguson as his mother, Lady Jessica; and Jason Momoa as Paul’s warrior uncle Duncan Idaho. The movie also stars Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Javier Bardem, Avengers vet Stellan Skarsgård, and The Suicide Squad‘s David Dastmalchian.

Dune is slated to be released in select theaters and IMAX and on HBO Max on October 22.

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Common and his girlfriend, actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish, have been dating for over a year now, and the rapper-actor says the secret to their sticking together has been his ability to communicate better while “listening better to what she has to say.”

“I think one of the important things about relationships for me has been to really know myself more and love myself and be able to express the things that I want,” Common, 49, tells People.  “I’ve evolved and gotten to that place.”

Additionally, Common says, “I listen and take things in and try to do my best to understand.”

“I listen to what Tiffany would have to say about how she feels about something and just try to understand it instead of always having an answer,” he continues.

Common says he and Haddish bring out the best in each other: “It’s about really just being in a relationship where you can grow and you really support each other’s purpose and vision…I’m making you better, you’re making me better and you can have fun.”

Common also credits Haddish, 41, with turning him on to the Netflix teen comedy-drama Never Have I Ever, in which he currently stars as Dr. Chris Jackson.

“Tiffany put it on and I was like, ‘Oh man, I love this show!’ So to get a call and hear ‘They’re potentially looking at you for a role,’ man, I was geeked.”

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Dax Shepard is proud to be a “big boy.”  

On his latest podcast episode of Armchair Expert, the Parenthood alum revealed that he bulked up during lockdown as part of a dream he’s been chasing for a decade.

“In quarantine, I said to [my wife Kristen Bell,] ‘I’ve been waiting for 10 years for Marvel to call so that I’d have an excuse to get huge,” he explained. “And they’re not gonna call. That ship sailed. I’m 46, they’re not gonna call. So I just have to do it for my own amusement.”

Revealing that he now works out six days a week, Shepard proudly announced he’s gained 24 pounds in muscle.  He also jokingly credited his gains to “lifting heavy, protein shakes, going bananas [and] heavy testosterone injections.”

Shepard , who’s 6’2″, says he now weighs 210 pounds.

“I spent my whole life as a medium boy, and now I’m a big boy and I like it,” he grinned.  “Mentally, I love it because it makes me far more on fire to be alive.”

The actor also revealed he was “depressed” after he filmed the 2017 box offiice dud, CHiPs, and at the time thought his only path was “literally retiring.” 

“All of a sudden I was on fire to work,” said Shepard of his new hobby. “This is the version I enjoy.”

Dax recently shared an adorable video on Instagram of him on a road trip with his eight-year-old daughter, Lincoln, as the two belt out Adele‘s 2015 hit “Hello.”

“Heaven is a place on a twisty two lane mountain pass where screaming @adele with your daughter is required,” the Bless This Mess star declared.

Shepard shares Lincoln and six-year-old Delta with Kristen Bell.

 

 

 

 

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William Shatner took his 90th trip around the sun last March, but that’s not stopping the Star Trek star.

He recorded albums and shot his History Channel show The UnXplained during the pandemic, swam with sharks in the Bahamas with adventurer Josh Gates in Discovery’s Expedition Unknown: Shark Trek, and just launched his new RT America series I Don’t Understand.  The series has Shatner exploring myriad mysteries ranging from why people lie, to what to do about space junk polluting Earth’s orbit.

“‘Are you 90?!’ I get that all the time,” Shatner tells ABC Audio. “I used to get ‘Are you Captain Kirk?’ and now it’s ‘Are you 90?!’ No!, I’m Captain Kirk,” he says with a laugh. 

You know, it’s weird, Shatner admits. “I’m dancing with sharks. I’m underwater with 50, 60 feet of sharks…and I’m in genuine peril. And I’m 90 years old! I don’t get it.” 

“The 90-year-olds I know,” Shatner continues, “You can tell how old they are by the amount of dribble on their shirt. If it’s a clean shirt, you’re 50 years old and younger. One dribble every 10 years: if you have three dribbles, you’re 80 years old — and that‘s young according to my point of view. Gee whiz, man!”

The trouble with dribbles aside, Shatner’s excited about I Don’t Understand. “It is a show that reflects my natural curiosity about everything,” he explains. “The older I’ve gotten, I’ve tried to simplify: ‘What is all this?’…What is the kernel of truth behind all this razzmatazz involving language…behind all the masks? And isn’t it a joy…to share that moment of truth…in a simple conversation? And that’s what I’m after.”  

I Don’t Understand is now streaming on various platforms and RT America’s website.

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